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SPOILER WARNING: This article contains extreme spoilers for the entirety of Telltale’s The Walking Dead series. Read at your own caution.

Welcome to Part 2 of my complaints in regards to The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. Last week, I discussed how the character writing was subpar and also how numerous parts in the story were plot deviced to suit the twists. Today we’re going to discuss three more shortfalls of the writing: namely the flashbacks, the predictability, and the pacing. Please be sure to check out Part 1 if you want to catch up.

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains extreme spoilers for the entirety of Telltale’s The Walking Dead series. Read at your own caution.

Even though I’m a fan of Telltale’s The Walking Dead series, I hesitated for a long time to get A New Frontier. This was due to the numerous bad reviews on Steam that criticized the game for having immensely short episodes. However, with the 2017 Steam Summer Sale in full swing, and the game having released all the episodes, I decided it was finally time to take a swing at it. After all, these critics were probably just being very harsh, right?

To my surprise, no. If anything, these reviews on Steam were being overly lenient. The game is, to me, a full on disgrace to its predecessors.